Jussie Smollett has been sentenced to 30 months of probation including 150 days of jail time after a jury found him guilty of lying to police over a hate crime, per The Guardian.
The 39-year-old actor reported that he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack which it later emerged he himself had orchestrated.
As well as jail time, Smollett was also ordered to pay $120,000 in restitution to the city of Chicago and fined $25,000 by Judge James Linn of Cook county circuit court.
In December, the Empire star was convicted after two brothers testified that he had paid them to carry out an attack on him in January 2019.
According to the brothers, Smollett gave them money to purchase ski masks and rope, ordered them to tie the rope into a noose, then gave explicit instructions on what racist and homophobic slurs to shout at him.
Prosecutors allege that Smollett asked them to yell that he was in 'Maga Country' - a reference to one of Donald Trump's presidential campaign slogans.
The brothers then carried out the 'attack' on Smollett while he was walking late at night. After the actor reported the incident to the police, an investigation was launched. But in February 2019, authorities accused the actor of staging the attack and filing a false police report.
During his trial Smollett maintained that he was innocent, testifying that he did not recognize the two brothers (who worked alongside him on the show Empire) and had no part in organizing their attack.
At his sentencing, the actor continued to protest his innocence, saying: "If I did this, then it means that I stuck my fist in the fears of Black Americans in this country for over 400 years and the fears of the LGBT community."
As lawyers and sheriff's deputies surrounded him, Smollett addressed the judge. "Your Honor, I respect you and I respect the jury but I did not do this," he said, before loudly insisting that he was not suicidal and that if anything happened to him in jail it would not be as a result of him taking his own life.
Eventually, Smollett was led out of the courtroom by sheriff's deputies as he loudly claimed: "I am innocent. I could have said I am guilty a long time ago."
But Judge Linn remained unmoved by Smollett's protestations, saying that he was shocked by Smollett's actions. "For you now to sit here, convicted of hoaxing, hate crimes … the hypocrisy is just astounding," he said.